Airbrush with your own hands at home: design and manufacture

Well-groomed hands with attractive manicure for the fairer sex - an indicator of elegance. Professionals use various techniques for drawing beautiful drawings on nails, especially it became fashionable to do aerography. The main tool for its implementation is a small spray gun for paint, which costs not so cheap. This is why many people try to do the airbrush by themselves at home.

Principle of operation of the device

The device functions as follows: the air present in the valve is compressed, thereby creating a strong pressure and spraying a special dye. Its main advantage is that it allows you to create smooth color transitions on your nails. The patterns drawn by this device are always voluminous and realistic.

Varieties of spray guns

The airbrush for nails can be single or double action. In simple homemade pneumatic guns, it is possible to regulate the supply of the coloring liquid. As a rule, such a device is used together with stencils. With it, saturated and clear patterns on the nails.

But in dual-effect devices, not only the flow of paint, but even the flow of air is controlled. Adjustment in them is done manually with a special valve. Such an airbrush for nails allows you to make more accurate and beautiful drawings with thin elements. By adjusting the air feed, you can change the thickness of the lines.

What does an airbrush consist of?

There are a lot of pneumatic sprayers, but they have almost the same structure. Created airbrush own hands at home consists mostly of such details as:

• Needle, which controls the supply of coloring matter.
• The nozzle, which is an element at the end of the tool for adjusting the jet thickness, has a diameter of at least 0.2-0.3 mm.
• Adjusting lever and valve for controlling the level of air and liquid, creating the optimum pressure in the system.
• A reservoir in which lacquer or paint is applied to apply drawings.
• The handle, however, it is not present in all devices.
• An air valve that carries air to the nozzle.

By the way, the collected airbrush will help to work with a compressor, creating the necessary pressure at home. Therefore, care must be taken to make it.

How to make an airbrush from a ballpoint pen?

To assemble such a tool it is necessary to prepare in advance:

• A simple pen for writing;
• Sealant or glue;
• A wine stopper;
• An empty glass jar with a capacity of 0.5 liters (preferably with a lid).

Firstly unwind the body of the ballpoint pen and pull out the rod, from which it will have to blow out all the ink. Then it should be thoroughly rinsed using a solvent, and dried. As a nozzle will protrude the body from the handle, so do not throw it away.

If you have problems with cleaning the rod, you should try to do this with a syringe. To do this, it is necessary to heat up its spout and install it into the rod, slightly razvaltsev, then pull out the liquid dye.

Then in the plug is made on one side a notch to the middle, after which it should be turned and cut in the opposite direction. Cut out a piece can be thrown away, it does not come in handy. In the remaining part, you need to make a hole for the installation of the rod, which is better placed in the center. Perpendicular to it in the middle of the cut out section is cut another hole.

Then the nozzle of the future airbrush is made. One end of the rod should be rounded with an emery cloth and inserted into the first notch. In the hole located on the side, the body from the handle is installed.

In the lid of the jar, too, you will have to make a small hole under the rod, the extra length of which can be cut off with scissors. Before using the airbrush, it is necessary to fix its position in the upper part of the container with the help of silicone sealant or glue. Thus, it will be possible to balance the airflow pressure inside the system.

To assemble the airbrush with your own hands from the handle lasted as long as possible, instead of the rod and writing instrument, it is better to put copper tubes.

Creation of a small compressor from a diaphragm pump

It is not difficult to make such a device. Mini-compressor for the airbrush, created with your own hands from a motor pump, is suitable for creating beautiful drawings on nails. Of course, its quality of coloring and power will be inferior to professional devices, but for an independent manicure it will come down.

To make a ready-made pistol from a ball-point pen begin to function, you must connect it directly to the compressor hose. However, the pulsation of air created by the pump will not allow the lacquer or paint to settle evenly. Therefore, it is necessary to add a receiver to the system, even the simplest one.

For such purposes, you can use an expansion tank from the machine or a plastic canister of 3-5 liters. The advantage of the first option is that there are outlet nozzles that facilitate the installation procedure. They only have to put on the connecting hoses, then fix the hose clamps, and the simplest airbrush compressor, made by hand, is ready for use.

Homemade Syringe Airbrush Gun

Before you start assembling it, it is advisable to prepare all the necessary tools in advance. To make this tool, you will need:

• Needle and disposable syringe;
• The rod from the ballpoint pen;
• Hot melt;
• Plastic or glass bottle with a lid;
• Paint tank.

The syringe is fixed to a prepared glass or plastic container, with a tube with a needle inserted into the body. A number of air access openings are made in the cover. The optimal distance between the tip of the pen and the needle can be calculated by the experimental method. The main advantage of this spray gun is an easy replacement of the tank.

The airbrush is made by hand at home from a syringe in several stages. First, the tip of the handle is cut with a cone. The working part of the needle is then cut off, after which it is lowered into hot melt and inserted into the cut-off rod. Do this in such a way that the tip of the medical needle can be seen from the metal part of the rod.

Another method of manufacturing an airbrush from a syringe

To assemble such an instrument, the following parts will be required: a disposable syringe with a needle, an insulating tape or an adhesive tape, a clip, a thread and a container for the coloring matter.

The medical needle should be well heated on fire so that it easily separates from the plastic base, and remove the piston from the syringe. The paper must first be straightened, after which it will have to be slightly bent. Then one side of the metal clamp is fastened to the needle with a thread, and the other is fixed to the body with adhesive tape. And you need to fasten the structure to the top of the medical instrument.

Then insert the tip of the needle so that it is in the middle of the syringe nozzle. To make the airbrush made from a syringe, you should add a coloring liquid to the container and dip a needle into it. It will only blow strongly into the wide hole.

Made in this way, the airbrush with its own hands at home in the people is called "rotoduv". It takes about 15 minutes to assemble it.

How to use an airbrush?

Before refilling the tank, it is necessary to dilute the paint to the desired consistency. After all, any coloring material poured into the container must be slightly thicker than water.

Mini-gun for creating a unique manicure will be more convenient, if the vessel with paint set the handles. Airbrush, although light, but it often takes a few hours to draw, because of what the hands are very tired of keeping it.

Work with a similar device can, if desired, anyone, not necessarily be an artist. In aerography, the main thing is to master the technique of execution. Neil-art allows you to create unique patterns and unusual graphic compositions on your nails with the help of special stencils and other additional devices.

If the homemade airbrush does not have a compressor, it's enough to just blow into the back of the handle body. It is the force of the air pressure that can control the range, as well as the intensity of the ink jet.

Helpful Tips

Every novice in this business must first learn how to make simple monophonic drawings, lines and figures using the airbrush. It is best to pass special training courses, which will show how to properly handle such a device. After gaining sufficient experience, it will be possible to create even very complex compositions.

Homemade airbrush will not only make a luxurious and quick manicure at home, but also save money on beauty salons.